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Fast Talk: Racing review as Labor Day beckons
Posted: 08/26/2024, 12:26 pmWith Labor Day weekend on the horizon after a busy weekend of Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series action, our roundtable answers questions in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Full Story
Notes: Breaks fall Blair's way for 3rd at Port Royal
Posted: 08/26/2024, 07:30 am By Kevin KovacPORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 24) — Max Blair was happy but also a bit perplexed after finishing third in Saturday’s 50-lap Rumble by the River finale at Port Royal Speedway. How was the 34-year-old Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series regular Full Story
J.D. grabs Rumble cash, but there's work to do
Posted: 08/25/2024, 02:52 pm By Kyle McFaddenPORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 24) — Jonathan Davenport didn’t sugarcoat anything when asked what the deciding factor had been in Saturday's $50,000 drive to his Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series victory at Port Royal Speedway. | RaceWire Of Full Story
Thornton-O'Neal scrape at Port Royal drama-free
Posted: 08/25/2024, 02:35 pm By Kevin KovacPORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 24) — Hudson O’Neal was running second. The driver he replaced last month as driver for SSI Motorsports, Ricky Thornton Jr., was third and itching to move up. But the battle of the two closely-connected rivals Full Story
Timeline: Scott Bloomquist's racing career
Posted: 08/21/2024, 12:30 pmSignificant dates, milestones and other noteworthy events in Hall of Fame driver Scott Bloomquist’s 45-year career: Nov. 14, 1963: Born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Ron and Georgie Bloomquist. August 1980: Competes in first dirt racing event Full Story
New-version Rocket XR1 has Richards feeling fine
Posted: 08/21/2024, 08:39 am By Kyle McFaddenLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 17) — Mark Richards and his Rocket Chassis organization have been particularly hard at work these last few months. Not only because their house car team had gone 48 races between victories — from Hudson O’Neal’s Full Story
Top 25: T-Mac, Shirley climb and posthumous tribute
Posted: 08/20/2024, 07:53 am By Kevin KovacA rare winless week wasn’t much of a hiccup for Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., who still made his presence known sufficiently on a three-race World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series swing through the Midwest to remain firmly on top of Full Story
Notes: Salvaging fifth eases Thornton's mind
Posted: 08/18/2024, 10:07 pm By Kyle McFaddenLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 17) — Ricky Thornton Jr. wasn’t particularly thrilled, of course, that a flat right-rear took him out of the lead on the 65th lap of Saturday’s Nutrien Ag Solutions Topless 100 at Batesville Motor Speedway. Full Story
'Rewarding' first victory in Rocket1 for T-Mac
Posted: 08/18/2024, 07:41 am By Kyle McFaddenLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 17) — Nearly every team in Batesville Motor Speedway’s back pit area had either loaded up or already departed after Saturday’s slog of a Topless 100 program, but Tim McCreadie was in no such rush. Still wearing Full Story
Bloomquist dies in plane crash on Tennessee farm
Posted: 08/16/2024, 11:25 am By Kevin KovacHall of Famer Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn., a larger than life figure considered one of the greatest drivers in Dirt Late Model racing history, died Friday morning in an accident while flying a vintage airplane on his family farm. Full Story
Notes: Young Georgian on fruitful path
Posted: 08/15/2024, 04:32 am By Todd TurnerFive-time World 100 winner Jonathan Davenport’s racing pedigree is legend in a certain part of the Southeast. The Blairsville, Ga., driver cut his teeth racing four-cylinders at Tri-County Racetrack in Brasstown, N.C., and how stands Full Story
Fast Facts: 32nd annual Nutrien Ag Solutions Topless 100
Posted: 08/14/2024, 02:50 pm By Aaron ClayDates: Aug. 16-17 Track: Batesville Motor Speedway (high-banked 3/8-mile dirt oval) Location: Locust Grove, Ark. Purse: $50,000-to-win Late Model feature Sanction: Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and Comp Cams Super Dirt Series Streaming: Full Story
Top 25: Troutman rejoins Pierce-topped rankings
Posted: 08/13/2024, 01:12 pm By Todd TurnerHis crown bejeweled with lucrative victories during a summer hot streak, Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., remained a unanimous No. 1 in DirtonDirt.com’s power rankings following his $75,000 repeat in the Sunoco Race Fuels North-South 100 Full Story
Fast Talk: Pierce's epic streak and quirky DQs
Posted: 08/12/2024, 12:05 pmWith Bobby Pierce streaking to yet another lucrative victory in Florence Speedway's Sunoco North-South 100, our roundtable looks at that and more in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity Full Story
Notes: Florence fade as car (nor lead) will stick
Posted: 08/12/2024, 06:49 am By Kevin KovacUNION, Ky. (Aug. 10) — Mike Marlar changed the expected narrative of Saturday’s Sunoco North-South 100 when he shot by race-long pacesetter Bobby Pierce for the lead on lap 42 of the crown jewel event at Florence Speedway. But as strong Full Story
Another $75,000 lifts Pierce to loftier heights
Posted: 08/11/2024, 08:43 am By Kevin KovacUNION, Ky. (Aug. 10) — The enormity of what Bobby Pierce — still young and improving at just 27 years old — is achieving amid an amazing run of big-race success seemed to hit him after he won Saturday’s 42nd Sunoco North-South 100 Full Story
Notes: J.D. turns test run into $6,000 win
Posted: 08/10/2024, 03:06 pm By Kevin KovacUNION, Ky. (Aug. 9) — Jonathan Davenport’s plan for Friday night’s second 25-lap North-South 100 semifeature at Florence Speedway went better than he ever could have imagined. While the 40-year-old star from Blairsville, Ga., started Full Story
Innate skill leads Pierce around Florence cushion
Posted: 08/10/2024, 08:47 am By Kevin KovacUNION, Ky. (Aug. 9) — Does Bobby Pierce have a sixth sense that allows him to drive his race car around the cushion at Florence Speedway (and, well, a lot of other tracks) in such seemingly masterful fashion? After the 27-year-old star Full Story
Big Friday rebound rights Jameson's flagging mood
Posted: 08/10/2024, 12:55 am By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 9) — Jason Jameson’s don’t-mess-with-me facial expression in the Florence Speedway pits looked identical Thursday and Friday. Jameson’s visage was understandable Thursday after a skirmish with Bobby Pierce and Full Story
Notes: Grudging entrant at the North-South 100
Posted: 08/09/2024, 11:01 am By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 8) — R.J. Conley of Wheelersburg, Ohio, a 60-year-old driver looking for his first victory of the 2024 season, hasn’t made a habit of coming to Florence’s Sunoco North-South 100 in recent seasons. So when a pitside Full Story
Notes: No North-South sweep, but Pierce in mix
Posted: 08/09/2024, 02:01 am By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 8) — The driver that swept through last year’s Sunoco North-South 100 action at Florence Speedway with three consecutive Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series wins won’t be sweeping this year’s crown jewel weekend, Full Story
Dispatches: Peterson takes shot at WCS sweep
Posted: 08/08/2024, 07:50 amAmong latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the second weekend in August from action including the MARS Championship Series, Structural Buildings WISSOTA Challenge Series and more (most stories focused on the Lucas Full Story
Column: Kansas driver's relaxed racing approach
Posted: 08/07/2024, 09:05 pmChase Junghans spent most of January and February racing in the Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout and Georgia-Florida Speedweeks and then … disappeared. For nearly five months the 31-year-old driver from Manhattan, Kan., was Full Story
Fast Facts: 42nd annual Sunoco Race Fuels North-South 100
Posted: 08/06/2024, 07:41 am By Aaron ClayDates: Aug 8-10 (four 25-lap, $6,000-to-win split-field semifeatures Thursday and Friday and Saturday’s 100-lap, $75,000-to-win North-South 100) Track: Florence Speedway (semi-banked half-mile dirt oval) Location: Union, Ky. Purse: Full Story
Top 25: Pierce solid No. 1 as English returns
Posted: 08/06/2024, 07:23 am By Kevin KovacAccentuating his grip on the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com’s weekly power rankings, Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., captured Saturday’s rain-shortened USA Nationals finale at Cedar Lake Speedway in New Richmond, Wis., for his fourth $50,000 Full Story
